Electricity supply is now comfortably higher than demand, allowing Eskom to do further short-term maintenance.
Sunday that load shedding will not only stay suspended for the foreseeable future, but that electricity supply is now comfortably higher than demand, allowing it to do further short-term maintenance on its generating units.
Despite not cutting the power for 39 consecutive days, Eskom said, too, that it has not made extensive use of its diesel-burning open-cycle gas turbines. It said rooftop solar has helped reduced demand, which, along with the improved generating performance, has helped eliminate load shedding for the past five weeks or so.
“Over the past few weeks, there has been a consistent and significant improvement in curbing unplanned outages – technically known as the ‘unplanned capacity loss factor’ – due to the success of the generation operational recovery plan which commenced in March 2023,” the utility said in a statement on Sunday.
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